'High Performers': Book Targets Strategies to Recruit, Retain Top Employees.(Book Review)

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, August, 2003

Byline: Purdue University

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Every employer's dream: an employee who is self-motivated to be a peak performer and always goes beyond the call of duty with little or no supervision.

What motivates these outstanding employees and how can you find and hire them?

Alan Dubinsky, a professor in Purdue's School of Consumer and Family Sciences, and co-author Steven J. Skinner, Rosenthal Professor of Marketing in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky, tackle these questions in their new book, "High Performers: Recruiting and Retaining Top Employees."

Dubinsky says recruitment and retention are even more important in the current economy, in which employers...

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